The Grenfell survivor and bereaved group described Reform UK’s housing spokesman’s comments about the fire as “not just insensitive, it is deeply dehumanising”.There have been calls to sack Simon Dudley after he said the deaths were a “tragedy and a failure” but that “everyone dies in the end”.
An inquiry into the 2017 blaze in which 72 people died found the deaths were avoidable.Grenfell United, which represents some bereaved and survivors, said in a Thursday statement: “Our loved ones did not simply ‘die.’ They were failed. They were trapped in their homes, in a building that should have been safe, in a fire that should never have happened. Reducing their deaths to an inevitability strips away the truth: this was preventable.”To speak about Grenfell in this way is to erase responsibility. It suggests this was just fate, just ‘how it goes,’ rather than the result of years of ignored warnings, poor decisions, and a failure to value the lives of residents, and is deeply offensive and ill informed.
“Everyone deserves the right to a safe home. But this attitude clearly shows Simon Dudley is not the man to ensure that happens.”This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly.
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